Seems there's either too much supply of drivers, and/or this whole cat/mouse gambling game, is overall adding waste and inefficiencies in the system. Seemingly by design to hold on to the driver pool while the drivers not realizing they're cogs being shelved in the system at the drivers own cost time and monetarily.

Pretty amazing how far behind regulation is compared to all these dynamic dark patterns. Not only in Uber, but in most everything we encounter these days, we're being guided, routed, or decided upon by unregulated dark patterns that would clearly be illegal if the details of which were exposed and explained in a way that anyone could understand.

Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/lax-uber-drive...